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ALLIED/ Le Petit Versailles @ MARKET

Over 100 Artists and Projects, 25 Curators and 9 New Commissions Highlighting 20 Years of Socially Engaged Art.

September 24 – October 16, 2011
The Historic Essex Street Market

80 Essex St. – Enter on Delancey

Allied and Le Petit Versailles will be represented at booths on October 7 & 8 from Noon to 8pm.

Please drop in and visit us.

Allied Productions, Inc. is a multi purpose non profit arts umbrella organization giving opportunity for artists of various mediums to show their work, as well as providing fiscal sponsorship, management support and project presentations locally, nationally, and abroad. Allied’s primary project is Le Petit Versailles, the Operation Greenthumb garden that hosts a Spring through Fall schedule of free public events presenting film/video, readings, workshops, forums, theater, performance, exhibition, installation, interdisciplinary practice, and live works. LPV promotes social activity in open green public space. The collective of artists forming Allied Productions, Inc. have collaborated on innumerable projects since meeting in New York City’s downtown art, club, and political circles in the mid 80’s. The collective functioned as the second generation of artist-managers at Abc No Rio, bringing performance, performing arts, cinema, and inter-disciplinary art to the fore, while retaining the focus on challenging, experimental, socially-driven creative practice in visual arts established by No Rio’s founders from Collaborative Projects, Inc. (CoLab). During this period Allied functioned as No Rio’s organizational management and fiscal sponsor. Allied’s current relationship with Abc No Rio continues as outside advisors, consultants, and conservators on archives and collections as a link to the living history of progressive creative action.

Allied’s archival projects include the preservation of works from the Naked Eye Cinema, the extension of No Rio’s film/video program, and the works of Gordon Stokes Kurtti, a principal founding member who died of AIDS related causes in 1987 at the of 27. Allied’s other longtime organizational associations through the intersection of common creative interests and activities include MIX NYC, and The Film Makers’ Cooperative.

Our ongoing investigation of the intersection of art, labor, economics, and the production of social experiences has led us to initiate a new project called MARKET. MARKET is our group’s contribution to the exhibition “Living as Form”, organized by Creative Time in New York City.

MARKET temporarily restores the Old Essex Street Market building at the southeast corner of Delancey and Essex Streets to its original function as a market place and publicly shared space. The MARKET version will be free to use, non-competitive, and particularly diverse in its offerings.

The Old Essex Street Market buildings were built in the 1930s under the administration of Mayor Fiorello La Guardia. While one of the market buildings on Essex Street remains active as an actual marketplace, the Old Market building that is hosting “Living as Form” is managed by the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC). NYCEDC rents the raw building space for film shoots, events, and other temporary functions.

MARKET borrows the infrastructure provided by Creative Time’s rental of the Essex Street Market. Each participant in MARKET is given one of six six-foot long stands within the “Living As Form” exhibition to use for an entire day, throughout the hours and duration of the exhibition. Each participant will be able to use MARKET for one or more days, according to availability. The brightly colored stands, designed by Temporary Services and constructed by Common Room, an architecture firm in the Lower East Side, are modeled after lemonade stands, produce stalls, and flea market style table-top presentations. Each vendor’s table is the same size, provided to the vendor free of charge. Any money made by those who sell things can be kept entirely by the individual, group or business.

MARKET provides indoor market stalls for a range of people and practices that are not often included in traditional market place settings. Table space is provided to people and groups that have demonstrated a commitment to the Lower East Side, regardless of the economic intention or viability of their practice, usual criteria for participation in a market. We have asked groups and individuals to participate that do not have a public office or cannot afford rental property, neighborhood spaces that do rent real estate but could use a boost in visibility or a change of audience, individuals that operate outside of typical Capitalist economies, local experts, organizations that have heavily documented culture from the neighborhood, seasonal vendors and single-person enterprises, and others who add to the eclectic energy of the area.

MARKET creates space for direct conversations and reflections on the many diverse ways in which we make our world and the kinds of relationships we want to foster in our daily exchanges with others, be they social, economic, cultural, or a combination of these things. MARKET champions the values of decency, compassion, working on a small scale, empowerment, and non-exploitative relationships with other people. Among the concerns we wish to highlight are creativity and self-representation, human relationships to the built and natural environment, social and spatial justice, and ethical economic practices. MARKET is, in part, a response to the ongoing economic and social crisis and its devastating impacts on the global economy, ecology, and on vulnerable populations.

A free publication will accompany MARKET and function as a directory to these people and organizations and their missions that can be consulted long after the exhibition ends. It is a snapshot of active organizations and people working on the Lower East Side in the Fall of 2011.

Le Petit Versailles is thrilled to bring back "Jeux d'Eau", an installation by visual artist Nicholas Vargelis and architect and artist Pierre de Brun.

The French title “Jeux d’Eau” is translated as water jets or can be literally translated to mean water games. The installation consists of garden hoses and water sprinklers commonly found in suburban yards. The water jets of the installation form a variety of aesthetic patterns controlled by a central set of valves made accessible for one to play or control the varying constellations of water mimicing public fountain displays.

These different setting of the water displays are inspired by the 1953 experimental film "Eaux d'Artifice" by Kenneth Anger, featuring the fountains of an aristocratic garden in Italy.

Le Petit Versailles is thrilled to bring back "Jeux d'Eau", an installation by visual artist Nicholas Vargelis and architect and artist Pierre de Brun.

The French title “Jeux d’Eau” is translated as water jets or can be literally translated to mean water games. The installation consists of garden hoses and water sprinklers commonly found in suburban yards. The water jets of the installation form a variety of aesthetic patterns controlled by a central set of valves made accessible for one to play or control the varying constellations of water mimicing public fountain displays.

These different setting of the water displays are inspired by the 1953 experimental film "Eaux d'Artifice" by Kenneth Anger, featuring the fountains of an aristocratic garden in Italy.

Curated by Courtney Muller
The Film-Maker's Co-op is back again this year to show us some lovely floral-based experimental films from their catalogue!

BOUQUETS 1-10 (1994-1995) by Rose Lowder. 12 min.
Structured in the camera during "filming", according to modalities worked out progressively in my previous films, these researches develop to compose a film bunch of pictures picked every time in the same site, at various times. These bunches of pictures chosen and weaved in alternated order also include some accidental photogrammes which, such of the herbs "poor", can be harmful or useful, depending on circumstances.

IN THE CONSERVATORY (2010) by Caryn Cline. 5 min
On a gray winter day in Seattle, the Volunteer Park Conservatory offers a trip to a different climate: lush, wildly colorful, strange, and beautiful. IN THE CONSERVATORY experimentally captures the essence of the place, through the use of direct animation, ambient sound, and music. Plants from the conservatory's winter collection were gleaned and pasted onto clear, 16mm film leader, then re-photographed on an optical printer while they were still fresh, resulting in a chance animation. The soundtrack combines ambient sound recorded in the Conservatory with a performance of a Samuel Barber composition, featuring Lucy Goeres on flute and Eliza Garth on piano.

SUMMER (1970) by Rudolph Burckhardt. 15 min.
"A few acres of Maine, a small lake in the woods, wild flowers, clouds, mosses, and mushrooms after the rain. The visual richness is fantastic, the objective eye is absorbing. Burckhardt often cuts by glimpses, the second time you see the film you see twice as much, and each time the power and depth of feeling are new." — Edwin Denby

THE GARDENER OF EDEN (1981) by James Broughton. 8 min
Filmed on the paradise island of Sri Lanka, this intense poetic work celebrates the eternal dance of nature's sexuality, and sings of the lost Eden we all search for but do not expect to find. In the midst of his fertile garden, while he awaits Adam's return, God tries to keep his eye on all the flowering exuberance he has seeded. The film is written and narrated by James Broughton, and photographed by Joel Singer. The music is performed on twin conch shells, and the central actor is in real life the most famous horticulturalist in Ceylon.

THE GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS (1981) by Stan Brakhage. 2 min.
Made with the assistance of the National Endowment of the Arts. This film (related to MOTHLIGHT) is a collage entirely made of mountain zone vegetation. As the title suggests it is an homage to (but also an argument with) Hieronymus Bosch. It pays tribute as well, and more naturally to The Tangled Garden of J. E. H. MacDonald and the flower paintings of Emil Nolde.

GLIMPSE OF THE GARDEN (1957) by Marie Menken. 5 min.
Filmed in a garden through a powerful magnifying glass, filmmaker Marie Menken's GLIMPSE OF GARDEN is a simple visual poem accompanied by the sound of birdsongs. When GLIMPSE OF GARDEN was shown at the Cinemathèque Française in 1963, Jonas Mekas reported that the French audience laughed at it, embarrassed by the film's benign simplicity. Suffice it to say that GLIMPSE OF GARDEN represents Menken's interest in pure visuals and essentially feminine point-of-view.

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Le Petit Versailles events are made possible by Allied Productions, Inc., Gardeners & Friends of LPV, GreenThumb/NYC Dept. of Parks, Materials for the Arts, the NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, and the Office of City Councilwoman Rosie Mendez. LPV Exhibitions are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

Projections by Joe Milutis
Sounds by Keiko Uenishi
Accidents of incidents, reflections on reflections
Sun cat (or solkatt) is the Swedish word for sunlight effects on a wall.

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Le Petit Versailles events are made possible by Allied Productions, Inc., Gardeners & Friends of LPV, GreenThumb/NYC Dept. of Parks, Materials for the Arts, the NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, and the Office of City Councilwoman Rosie Mendez. LPV Exhibitions are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

CLOSING DAY GARDEN PARTY: SEPT 3, 5-7 PM
Uncontainable is an craft based installation that explores the long history of the vessel being a metaphor for a feminine body that is open, empty, and awaiting to be filled by the patriarchy. Caitlin Rose Sweet’s ceramic sculptures presents complicated forms that embody the potentiality of queerness and interrogates concepts of functionality, feminine labor, and interdependence. These queer ceramic vessels are not simple passive receivers to hold what is given to them but evolving hungry beasts that drip with their desire, love, and revolt.

The installation will be open to the public from Aug 17- Sept 3rd. On the closing day Sept 3rd from 5-7 pm there will be a garden party that celebrates queer pleasure and resistance. Please dress to impress in your finest sequins, hard florals, and highest drag. The space will be graced with the performances from John Michael Swartz, Carlo Maria and Connor Donahue, Miss West Vargina, Red, Mayfield Brooks (adddance.tumblr.com), B Dyson, Jennifer Vanilla (youtube.com/c/JenniferVanillaTV), and boiled wool (boiledwool.bandcamp.com). This magical moment will be sweetened by the confections of Vanessa Rae’s Glitter Sweet. Caitlin Rose Sweet’s ceramic vessels will be activated by a group of performers who will form living tableaus of queer intimacy by exchanging fluid between the vessels. This fluid exchange fountain will be performed by Lauren Lydiard, Noelle Fries (noellefries.com), Luz Cruz, Abigail Lloyd (www.hedronstudio.com ), Avigail Hurvitz-Prinz and others.

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Le Petit Versailles events are made possible by Allied Productions, Inc., Gardeners & Friends of LPV, GreenThumb/NYC Dept. of Parks, Materials for the Arts, the NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, and the Office of City Councilwoman Rosie Mendez. LPV Exhibitions are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

CLOSING DAY GARDEN PARTY: SEPT 3, 5-7 PM
Uncontainable is an craft based installation that explores the long history of the vessel being a metaphor for a feminine body that is open, empty, and awaiting to be filled by the patriarchy. Caitlin Rose Sweet’s ceramic sculptures presents complicated forms that embody the potentiality of queerness and interrogates concepts of functionality, feminine labor, and interdependence. These queer ceramic vessels are not simple passive receivers to hold what is given to them but evolving hungry beasts that drip with their desire, love, and revolt.

The installation will be open to the public from Aug 17- Sept 3rd. On the closing day Sept 3rd from 5-7 pm there will be a garden party that celebrates queer pleasure and resistance. Please dress to impress in your finest sequins, hard florals, and highest drag. The space will be graced with the performances from John Michael Swartz, Carlo Maria and Connor Donahue, Miss West Vargina, Red, Mayfield Brooks (adddance.tumblr.com), B Dyson, Jennifer Vanilla (youtube.com/c/JenniferVanillaTV), and boiled wool (boiledwool.bandcamp.com). This magical moment will be sweetened by the confections of Vanessa Rae’s Glitter Sweet. Caitlin Rose Sweet’s ceramic vessels will be activated by a group of performers who will form living tableaus of queer intimacy by exchanging fluid between the vessels. This fluid exchange fountain will be performed by Lauren Lydiard, Noelle Fries (noellefries.com), Luz Cruz, Abigail Lloyd (www.hedronstudio.com ), Avigail Hurvitz-Prinz and others.

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Le Petit Versailles events are made possible by Allied Productions, Inc., Gardeners & Friends of LPV, GreenThumb/NYC Dept. of Parks, Materials for the Arts, the NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, and the Office of City Councilwoman Rosie Mendez. LPV Exhibitions are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

We’re excited to have Garrin Benfield back at the garden this summer! Garrin Benfield's sound has been described as Freestyle Acoustic Rock. His music is a blend of moody, guitar driven rock and polyrhythmic groove all run through the filter of a very serious Singer/Songwriter. His talent shines through as a solo artist when he flat-picks his way through complicated and lightning-fast arrangements and also while he uses a Loop Station to create mesmerizing soundscapes upon which he lays blistering rock, blues and jazz licks, darkened by his extensive use of effect pedals.

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Le Petit Versailles events are made possible by Allied Productions, Inc., Gardeners & Friends of LPV, GreenThumb/NYC Dept. of Parks, Materials for the Arts, the NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, and the Office of City Councilwoman Rosie Mendez. LPV Exhibitions are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

CLOSING DAY GARDEN PARTY: SEPT 3, 5-7 PM
Uncontainable is an craft based installation that explores the long history of the vessel being a metaphor for a feminine body that is open, empty, and awaiting to be filled by the patriarchy. Caitlin Rose Sweet’s ceramic sculptures presents complicated forms that embody the potentiality of queerness and interrogates concepts of functionality, feminine labor, and interdependence. These queer ceramic vessels are not simple passive receivers to hold what is given to them but evolving hungry beasts that drip with their desire, love, and revolt.

The installation will be open to the public from Aug 17- Sept 3rd. On the closing day Sept 3rd from 5-7 pm there will be a garden party that celebrates queer pleasure and resistance. Please dress to impress in your finest sequins, hard florals, and highest drag. The space will be graced with the performances from John Michael Swartz, Carlo Maria and Connor Donahue, Miss West Vargina, Red, Mayfield Brooks (adddance.tumblr.com), B Dyson, Jennifer Vanilla (youtube.com/c/JenniferVanillaTV), and boiled wool (boiledwool.bandcamp.com). This magical moment will be sweetened by the confections of Vanessa Rae’s Glitter Sweet. Caitlin Rose Sweet’s ceramic vessels will be activated by a group of performers who will form living tableaus of queer intimacy by exchanging fluid between the vessels. This fluid exchange fountain will be performed by Lauren Lydiard, Noelle Fries (noellefries.com), Luz Cruz, Abigail Lloyd (www.hedronstudio.com ), Avigail Hurvitz-Prinz and others.

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Le Petit Versailles events are made possible by Allied Productions, Inc., Gardeners & Friends of LPV, GreenThumb/NYC Dept. of Parks, Materials for the Arts, the NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, and the Office of City Councilwoman Rosie Mendez. LPV Exhibitions are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

7 years ago, Handsome Jeremy brought a family of performers together to explore in performance the ways in which spirituality, queer experience and life, and the need for healing and self-knowledge could be easily and beautifully braided in the medium of cabaret. Join us once again as work our way up/down/side/slant/above/below/outwith the chakras with your guides Handsome Jeremy, Peter Cramer, Connor Donahue, Dharma Jay, Carlo Maria, Jack Waters, And Mysterious Others To Be Announced!

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Le Petit Versailles events are made possible by Allied Productions, Inc., Gardeners & Friends of LPV, GreenThumb/NYC Dept. of Parks, Materials for the Arts, the NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, and the Office of City Councilwoman Rosie Mendez. LPV Exhibitions are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

CLOSING DAY GARDEN PARTY: SEPT 3, 5-7 PM
Uncontainable is an craft based installation that explores the long history of the vessel being a metaphor for a feminine body that is open, empty, and awaiting to be filled by the patriarchy. Caitlin Rose Sweet’s ceramic sculptures presents complicated forms that embody the potentiality of queerness and interrogates concepts of functionality, feminine labor, and interdependence. These queer ceramic vessels are not simple passive receivers to hold what is given to them but evolving hungry beasts that drip with their desire, love, and revolt.

The installation will be open to the public from Aug 17- Sept 3rd. On the closing day Sept 3rd from 5-7 pm there will be a garden party that celebrates queer pleasure and resistance. Please dress to impress in your finest sequins, hard florals, and highest drag. The space will be graced with the performances from John Michael Swartz, Carlo Maria and Connor Donahue, Miss West Vargina, Red, Mayfield Brooks (adddance.tumblr.com), B Dyson, Jennifer Vanilla (youtube.com/c/JenniferVanillaTV), and boiled wool (boiledwool.bandcamp.com). This magical moment will be sweetened by the confections of Vanessa Rae’s Glitter Sweet. Caitlin Rose Sweet’s ceramic vessels will be activated by a group of performers who will form living tableaus of queer intimacy by exchanging fluid between the vessels. This fluid exchange fountain will be performed by Lauren Lydiard, Noelle Fries (noellefries.com), Luz Cruz, Abigail Lloyd (www.hedronstudio.com ), Avigail Hurvitz-Prinz and others.

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Le Petit Versailles events are made possible by Allied Productions, Inc., Gardeners & Friends of LPV, GreenThumb/NYC Dept. of Parks, Materials for the Arts, the NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, and the Office of City Councilwoman Rosie Mendez. LPV Exhibitions are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

CLOSING DAY GARDEN PARTY: SEPT 3, 5-7 PM
Uncontainable is an craft based installation that explores the long history of the vessel being a metaphor for a feminine body that is open, empty, and awaiting to be filled by the patriarchy. Caitlin Rose Sweet’s ceramic sculptures presents complicated forms that embody the potentiality of queerness and interrogates concepts of functionality, feminine labor, and interdependence. These queer ceramic vessels are not simple passive receivers to hold what is given to them but evolving hungry beasts that drip with their desire, love, and revolt.

The installation will be open to the public from Aug 17- Sept 3rd. On the closing day Sept 3rd from 5-7 pm there will be a garden party that celebrates queer pleasure and resistance. Please dress to impress in your finest sequins, hard florals, and highest drag. The space will be graced with the performances from John Michael Swartz, Carlo Maria and Connor Donahue, Miss West Vargina, Red, Mayfield Brooks (adddance.tumblr.com), B Dyson, Jennifer Vanilla (youtube.com/c/JenniferVanillaTV), and boiled wool (boiledwool.bandcamp.com). This magical moment will be sweetened by the confections of Vanessa Rae’s Glitter Sweet. Caitlin Rose Sweet’s ceramic vessels will be activated by a group of performers who will form living tableaus of queer intimacy by exchanging fluid between the vessels. This fluid exchange fountain will be performed by Lauren Lydiard, Noelle Fries (noellefries.com), Luz Cruz, Abigail Lloyd (www.hedronstudio.com ), Avigail Hurvitz-Prinz and others.

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Le Petit Versailles events are made possible by Allied Productions, Inc., Gardeners & Friends of LPV, GreenThumb/NYC Dept. of Parks, Materials for the Arts, the NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, and the Office of City Councilwoman Rosie Mendez. LPV Exhibitions are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

CLOSING DAY GARDEN PARTY: SEPT 3, 5-7 PM
Uncontainable is an craft based installation that explores the long history of the vessel being a metaphor for a feminine body that is open, empty, and awaiting to be filled by the patriarchy. Caitlin Rose Sweet’s ceramic sculptures presents complicated forms that embody the potentiality of queerness and interrogates concepts of functionality, feminine labor, and interdependence. These queer ceramic vessels are not simple passive receivers to hold what is given to them but evolving hungry beasts that drip with their desire, love, and revolt.

The installation will be open to the public from Aug 17- Sept 3rd. On the closing day Sept 3rd from 5-7 pm there will be a garden party that celebrates queer pleasure and resistance. Please dress to impress in your finest sequins, hard florals, and highest drag. The space will be graced with the performances from John Michael Swartz, Carlo Maria and Connor Donahue, Miss West Vargina, Red, Mayfield Brooks (adddance.tumblr.com), B Dyson, Jennifer Vanilla (youtube.com/c/JenniferVanillaTV), and boiled wool (boiledwool.bandcamp.com). This magical moment will be sweetened by the confections of Vanessa Rae’s Glitter Sweet. Caitlin Rose Sweet’s ceramic vessels will be activated by a group of performers who will form living tableaus of queer intimacy by exchanging fluid between the vessels. This fluid exchange fountain will be performed by Lauren Lydiard, Noelle Fries (noellefries.com), Luz Cruz, Abigail Lloyd (www.hedronstudio.com ), Avigail Hurvitz-Prinz and others.

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Le Petit Versailles events are made possible by Allied Productions, Inc., Gardeners & Friends of LPV, GreenThumb/NYC Dept. of Parks, Materials for the Arts, the NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, and the Office of City Councilwoman Rosie Mendez. LPV Exhibitions are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

CLOSING DAY GARDEN PARTY: SEPT 3, 5-7 PM
Uncontainable is an craft based installation that explores the long history of the vessel being a metaphor for a feminine body that is open, empty, and awaiting to be filled by the patriarchy. Caitlin Rose Sweet’s ceramic sculptures presents complicated forms that embody the potentiality of queerness and interrogates concepts of functionality, feminine labor, and interdependence. These queer ceramic vessels are not simple passive receivers to hold what is given to them but evolving hungry beasts that drip with their desire, love, and revolt.

The installation will be open to the public from Aug 17- Sept 3rd. On the closing day Sept 3rd from 5-7 pm there will be a garden party that celebrates queer pleasure and resistance. Please dress to impress in your finest sequins, hard florals, and highest drag. The space will be graced with the performances from John Michael Swartz, Carlo Maria and Connor Donahue, Miss West Vargina, Red, Mayfield Brooks (adddance.tumblr.com), B Dyson, Jennifer Vanilla (youtube.com/c/JenniferVanillaTV), and boiled wool (boiledwool.bandcamp.com). This magical moment will be sweetened by the confections of Vanessa Rae’s Glitter Sweet. Caitlin Rose Sweet’s ceramic vessels will be activated by a group of performers who will form living tableaus of queer intimacy by exchanging fluid between the vessels. This fluid exchange fountain will be performed by Lauren Lydiard, Noelle Fries (noellefries.com), Luz Cruz, Abigail Lloyd (www.hedronstudio.com ), Avigail Hurvitz-Prinz and others.

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Le Petit Versailles events are made possible by Allied Productions, Inc., Gardeners & Friends of LPV, GreenThumb/NYC Dept. of Parks, Materials for the Arts, the NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, and the Office of City Councilwoman Rosie Mendez. LPV Exhibitions are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

CLOSING DAY GARDEN PARTY: SEPT 3, 5-7 PM
Uncontainable is an craft based installation that explores the long history of the vessel being a metaphor for a feminine body that is open, empty, and awaiting to be filled by the patriarchy. Caitlin Rose Sweet’s ceramic sculptures presents complicated forms that embody the potentiality of queerness and interrogates concepts of functionality, feminine labor, and interdependence. These queer ceramic vessels are not simple passive receivers to hold what is given to them but evolving hungry beasts that drip with their desire, love, and revolt.

The installation will be open to the public from Aug 17- Sept 3rd. On the closing day Sept 3rd from 5-7 pm there will be a garden party that celebrates queer pleasure and resistance. Please dress to impress in your finest sequins, hard florals, and highest drag. The space will be graced with the performances from John Michael Swartz, Carlo Maria and Connor Donahue, Miss West Vargina, Red, Mayfield Brooks (adddance.tumblr.com), B Dyson, Jennifer Vanilla (youtube.com/c/JenniferVanillaTV), and boiled wool (boiledwool.bandcamp.com). This magical moment will be sweetened by the confections of Vanessa Rae’s Glitter Sweet. Caitlin Rose Sweet’s ceramic vessels will be activated by a group of performers who will form living tableaus of queer intimacy by exchanging fluid between the vessels. This fluid exchange fountain will be performed by Lauren Lydiard, Noelle Fries (noellefries.com), Luz Cruz, Abigail Lloyd (www.hedronstudio.com ), Avigail Hurvitz-Prinz and others.

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Le Petit Versailles events are made possible by Allied Productions, Inc., Gardeners & Friends of LPV, GreenThumb/NYC Dept. of Parks, Materials for the Arts, the NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, and the Office of City Councilwoman Rosie Mendez. LPV Exhibitions are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

CLOSING DAY GARDEN PARTY: SEPT 3, 5-7 PM
Uncontainable is an craft based installation that explores the long history of the vessel being a metaphor for a feminine body that is open, empty, and awaiting to be filled by the patriarchy. Caitlin Rose Sweet’s ceramic sculptures presents complicated forms that embody the potentiality of queerness and interrogates concepts of functionality, feminine labor, and interdependence. These queer ceramic vessels are not simple passive receivers to hold what is given to them but evolving hungry beasts that drip with their desire, love, and revolt.

The installation will be open to the public from Aug 17- Sept 3rd. On the closing day Sept 3rd from 5-7 pm there will be a garden party that celebrates queer pleasure and resistance. Please dress to impress in your finest sequins, hard florals, and highest drag. The space will be graced with the performances from John Michael Swartz, Carlo Maria and Connor Donahue, Miss West Vargina, Red, Mayfield Brooks (adddance.tumblr.com), B Dyson, Jennifer Vanilla (youtube.com/c/JenniferVanillaTV), and boiled wool (boiledwool.bandcamp.com). This magical moment will be sweetened by the confections of Vanessa Rae’s Glitter Sweet. Caitlin Rose Sweet’s ceramic vessels will be activated by a group of performers who will form living tableaus of queer intimacy by exchanging fluid between the vessels. This fluid exchange fountain will be performed by Lauren Lydiard, Noelle Fries (noellefries.com), Luz Cruz, Abigail Lloyd (www.hedronstudio.com ), Avigail Hurvitz-Prinz and others.

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Le Petit Versailles events are made possible by Allied Productions, Inc., Gardeners & Friends of LPV, GreenThumb/NYC Dept. of Parks, Materials for the Arts, the NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, and the Office of City Councilwoman Rosie Mendez. LPV Exhibitions are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

At times, being a performance artist can feel more like being a failed librarian.
This series is a small contribution to the historical record of performance art in New York City. Twelve artists total, four per night. Each performance will be lovingly documented and the video archived on YouTube.

PERFORMERS:
CoCo Cafe is a first-generation Chicanx interdisciplinary performance artist, cultural worker, curator, and organizer from the suburban “Bible Belt” of Dallas, Texas. As a person living within the diaspora, she practices performance as a decolonizing methodology, exploring indigeneity, queer identities, trauma, history, and memory through autobiography. Their practice is fueled by research in the U.S. and Mexico which traces the mass disappearances and forced displacement of people in her father’s home state of Guerrero. https://performanceco.tumblr.com/

Kledia Spiro (Tirana, Albania) creates videos, performances, installations, and paintings. She uses weightlifting as a symbol of survival, empowerment and celebration. Weightlifting becomes a vehicle for discussing women’s role in society, immigration and times of war. By experimenting with indeterminate methods, Spiro wants the viewer to access the otherwise inaccessible spaces. Her works are based on Freudian and Piagetian behavioral concepts: visions that reflect psycho-analysis, behavioral psychology, and a sensation of indisputability, combined with details of odd, eccentric, absurd, totemic and humoristic elements. By questioning where one is and the concept of movement, Spiro investigate the manipulation of lifting objects overhead and it's effects. http://www.klediaspiro.com

Lorene Bouboushian is a performance artist who utilizes "self-exposure and vulnerability in real, risky ways" [CultureBot, 2011] and produces “thought-provoking commentary on social limits” [Minneapolis Star Tribune, 2016]. She has spread her black magic from Seattle to Madison, Athens, Beirut, and Zagreb. Projects include punk-noise duo ::missdick vibrocis (with Forced into Femininity), Know What Smokes—a durational duet with closed eyes and objects (with Kaia Gilje), and extent of explosive lament, a solo on class and liminal Lebaneseness. She has traveled to sites including University of Kentucky, Lexington, and Universidad de Las Americas Puebla to teach interdisciplinary, accessible performance workshops. www.lorenebouboushian.org

Shawn Escarciga (Brooklyn, NY, USA) is an experimental movement artist whose work is based in Butoh and the creation of new movement paradigms, particularly around the queer body. His work has been shown throughout New York City (Panoply Performance Lab, Glasshouse ArtLifeLab[Performeando], Queens Museum[LiveArt.us], MIX NYC, Triskelion, Chinatown Soup{Performance Anxiety], The Clemente), in other cities (Boston, Chicago, Lexington), and also in another country once (Month of Performance Art - Berlin). He has collaborated and performed with artists and collectives throughout New York City, including Butoh company, The Vangeline Theater/New York Butoh Institute, and the multidisciplinary social justice and performance group, Gender/Power, as well as teaching movement and Butoh workshops independently for Otion Front Studio and the University of Kenutcky. He thinks a lot about classism, queer visibility, subtlety, how to light patriarchal structures on fire effectively, and what it would be like to live in a country that supports non-commercial artists, which might look something like eating a 2000 calorie diet regularly and owning a Shiba Inu.

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Le Petit Versailles events are made possible by Allied Productions, Inc., Gardeners & Friends of LPV, GreenThumb/NYC Dept. of Parks, Materials for the Arts, the NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, and the Office of City Councilwoman Rosie Mendez. LPV Exhibitions are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

CLOSING DAY GARDEN PARTY: SEPT 3, 5-7 PM
Uncontainable is an craft based installation that explores the long history of the vessel being a metaphor for a feminine body that is open, empty, and awaiting to be filled by the patriarchy. Caitlin Rose Sweet’s ceramic sculptures presents complicated forms that embody the potentiality of queerness and interrogates concepts of functionality, feminine labor, and interdependence. These queer ceramic vessels are not simple passive receivers to hold what is given to them but evolving hungry beasts that drip with their desire, love, and revolt.

The installation will be open to the public from Aug 17- Sept 3rd. On the closing day Sept 3rd from 5-7 pm there will be a garden party that celebrates queer pleasure and resistance. Please dress to impress in your finest sequins, hard florals, and highest drag. The space will be graced with the performances from John Michael Swartz, Carlo Maria and Connor Donahue, Miss West Vargina, Red, Mayfield Brooks (adddance.tumblr.com), B Dyson, Jennifer Vanilla (youtube.com/c/JenniferVanillaTV), and boiled wool (boiledwool.bandcamp.com). This magical moment will be sweetened by the confections of Vanessa Rae’s Glitter Sweet. Caitlin Rose Sweet’s ceramic vessels will be activated by a group of performers who will form living tableaus of queer intimacy by exchanging fluid between the vessels. This fluid exchange fountain will be performed by Lauren Lydiard, Noelle Fries (noellefries.com), Luz Cruz, Abigail Lloyd (www.hedronstudio.com ), Avigail Hurvitz-Prinz and others.

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Le Petit Versailles events are made possible by Allied Productions, Inc., Gardeners & Friends of LPV, GreenThumb/NYC Dept. of Parks, Materials for the Arts, the NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, and the Office of City Councilwoman Rosie Mendez. LPV Exhibitions are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

At times, being a performance artist can feel more like being a failed librarian.
This series is a small contribution to the historical record of performance art in New York City. Twelve artists total, four per night. Each performance will be lovingly documented and the video archived on YouTube.

PERFORMERS:
CoCo Cafe is a first-generation Chicanx interdisciplinary performance artist, cultural worker, curator, and organizer from the suburban “Bible Belt” of Dallas, Texas. As a person living within the diaspora, she practices performance as a decolonizing methodology, exploring indigeneity, queer identities, trauma, history, and memory through autobiography. Their practice is fueled by research in the U.S. and Mexico which traces the mass disappearances and forced displacement of people in her father’s home state of Guerrero. https://performanceco.tumblr.com/

Kledia Spiro (Tirana, Albania) creates videos, performances, installations, and paintings. She uses weightlifting as a symbol of survival, empowerment and celebration. Weightlifting becomes a vehicle for discussing women’s role in society, immigration and times of war. By experimenting with indeterminate methods, Spiro wants the viewer to access the otherwise inaccessible spaces. Her works are based on Freudian and Piagetian behavioral concepts: visions that reflect psycho-analysis, behavioral psychology, and a sensation of indisputability, combined with details of odd, eccentric, absurd, totemic and humoristic elements. By questioning where one is and the concept of movement, Spiro investigate the manipulation of lifting objects overhead and it's effects. http://www.klediaspiro.com

Lorene Bouboushian is a performance artist who utilizes "self-exposure and vulnerability in real, risky ways" [CultureBot, 2011] and produces “thought-provoking commentary on social limits” [Minneapolis Star Tribune, 2016]. She has spread her black magic from Seattle to Madison, Athens, Beirut, and Zagreb. Projects include punk-noise duo ::missdick vibrocis (with Forced into Femininity), Know What Smokes—a durational duet with closed eyes and objects (with Kaia Gilje), and extent of explosive lament, a solo on class and liminal Lebaneseness. She has traveled to sites including University of Kentucky, Lexington, and Universidad de Las Americas Puebla to teach interdisciplinary, accessible performance workshops. www.lorenebouboushian.org

Shawn Escarciga (Brooklyn, NY, USA) is an experimental movement artist whose work is based in Butoh and the creation of new movement paradigms, particularly around the queer body. His work has been shown throughout New York City (Panoply Performance Lab, Glasshouse ArtLifeLab[Performeando], Queens Museum[LiveArt.us], MIX NYC, Triskelion, Chinatown Soup{Performance Anxiety], The Clemente), in other cities (Boston, Chicago, Lexington), and also in another country once (Month of Performance Art - Berlin). He has collaborated and performed with artists and collectives throughout New York City, including Butoh company, The Vangeline Theater/New York Butoh Institute, and the multidisciplinary social justice and performance group, Gender/Power, as well as teaching movement and Butoh workshops independently for Otion Front Studio and the University of Kenutcky. He thinks a lot about classism, queer visibility, subtlety, how to light patriarchal structures on fire effectively, and what it would be like to live in a country that supports non-commercial artists, which might look something like eating a 2000 calorie diet regularly and owning a Shiba Inu.

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Le Petit Versailles events are made possible by Allied Productions, Inc., Gardeners & Friends of LPV, GreenThumb/NYC Dept. of Parks, Materials for the Arts, the NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, and the Office of City Councilwoman Rosie Mendez. LPV Exhibitions are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

CLOSING DAY GARDEN PARTY: SEPT 3, 5-7 PM
Uncontainable is an craft based installation that explores the long history of the vessel being a metaphor for a feminine body that is open, empty, and awaiting to be filled by the patriarchy. Caitlin Rose Sweet’s ceramic sculptures presents complicated forms that embody the potentiality of queerness and interrogates concepts of functionality, feminine labor, and interdependence. These queer ceramic vessels are not simple passive receivers to hold what is given to them but evolving hungry beasts that drip with their desire, love, and revolt.

The installation will be open to the public from Aug 17- Sept 3rd. On the closing day Sept 3rd from 5-7 pm there will be a garden party that celebrates queer pleasure and resistance. Please dress to impress in your finest sequins, hard florals, and highest drag. The space will be graced with the performances from John Michael Swartz, Carlo Maria and Connor Donahue, Miss West Vargina, Red, Mayfield Brooks (adddance.tumblr.com), B Dyson, Jennifer Vanilla (youtube.com/c/JenniferVanillaTV), and boiled wool (boiledwool.bandcamp.com). This magical moment will be sweetened by the confections of Vanessa Rae’s Glitter Sweet. Caitlin Rose Sweet’s ceramic vessels will be activated by a group of performers who will form living tableaus of queer intimacy by exchanging fluid between the vessels. This fluid exchange fountain will be performed by Lauren Lydiard, Noelle Fries (noellefries.com), Luz Cruz, Abigail Lloyd (www.hedronstudio.com ), Avigail Hurvitz-Prinz and others.

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Le Petit Versailles events are made possible by Allied Productions, Inc., Gardeners & Friends of LPV, GreenThumb/NYC Dept. of Parks, Materials for the Arts, the NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, and the Office of City Councilwoman Rosie Mendez. LPV Exhibitions are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

CLOSING DAY GARDEN PARTY: SEPT 3, 5-7 PM
Uncontainable is an craft based installation that explores the long history of the vessel being a metaphor for a feminine body that is open, empty, and awaiting to be filled by the patriarchy. Caitlin Rose Sweet’s ceramic sculptures presents complicated forms that embody the potentiality of queerness and interrogates concepts of functionality, feminine labor, and interdependence. These queer ceramic vessels are not simple passive receivers to hold what is given to them but evolving hungry beasts that drip with their desire, love, and revolt.

The installation will be open to the public from Aug 17- Sept 3rd. On the closing day Sept 3rd from 5-7 pm there will be a garden party that celebrates queer pleasure and resistance. Please dress to impress in your finest sequins, hard florals, and highest drag. The space will be graced with the performances from John Michael Swartz, Carlo Maria and Connor Donahue, Miss West Vargina, Red, Mayfield Brooks (adddance.tumblr.com), B Dyson, Jennifer Vanilla (youtube.com/c/JenniferVanillaTV), and boiled wool (boiledwool.bandcamp.com). This magical moment will be sweetened by the confections of Vanessa Rae’s Glitter Sweet. Caitlin Rose Sweet’s ceramic vessels will be activated by a group of performers who will form living tableaus of queer intimacy by exchanging fluid between the vessels. This fluid exchange fountain will be performed by Lauren Lydiard, Noelle Fries (noellefries.com), Luz Cruz, Abigail Lloyd (www.hedronstudio.com ), Avigail Hurvitz-Prinz and others.

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Le Petit Versailles events are made possible by Allied Productions, Inc., Gardeners & Friends of LPV, GreenThumb/NYC Dept. of Parks, Materials for the Arts, the NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, and the Office of City Councilwoman Rosie Mendez. LPV Exhibitions are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

CLOSING DAY GARDEN PARTY: SEPT 3, 5-7 PM
Uncontainable is an craft based installation that explores the long history of the vessel being a metaphor for a feminine body that is open, empty, and awaiting to be filled by the patriarchy. Caitlin Rose Sweet’s ceramic sculptures presents complicated forms that embody the potentiality of queerness and interrogates concepts of functionality, feminine labor, and interdependence. These queer ceramic vessels are not simple passive receivers to hold what is given to them but evolving hungry beasts that drip with their desire, love, and revolt.

The installation will be open to the public from Aug 17- Sept 3rd. On the closing day Sept 3rd from 5-7 pm there will be a garden party that celebrates queer pleasure and resistance. Please dress to impress in your finest sequins, hard florals, and highest drag. The space will be graced with the performances from John Michael Swartz, Carlo Maria and Connor Donahue, Miss West Vargina, Red, Mayfield Brooks (adddance.tumblr.com), B Dyson, Jennifer Vanilla (youtube.com/c/JenniferVanillaTV), and boiled wool (boiledwool.bandcamp.com). This magical moment will be sweetened by the confections of Vanessa Rae’s Glitter Sweet. Caitlin Rose Sweet’s ceramic vessels will be activated by a group of performers who will form living tableaus of queer intimacy by exchanging fluid between the vessels. This fluid exchange fountain will be performed by Lauren Lydiard, Noelle Fries (noellefries.com), Luz Cruz, Abigail Lloyd (www.hedronstudio.com ), Avigail Hurvitz-Prinz and others.

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Le Petit Versailles events are made possible by Allied Productions, Inc., Gardeners & Friends of LPV, GreenThumb/NYC Dept. of Parks, Materials for the Arts, the NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, and the Office of City Councilwoman Rosie Mendez. LPV Exhibitions are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

CLOSING DAY GARDEN PARTY: SEPT 3, 5-7 PM
Uncontainable is an craft based installation that explores the long history of the vessel being a metaphor for a feminine body that is open, empty, and awaiting to be filled by the patriarchy. Caitlin Rose Sweet’s ceramic sculptures presents complicated forms that embody the potentiality of queerness and interrogates concepts of functionality, feminine labor, and interdependence. These queer ceramic vessels are not simple passive receivers to hold what is given to them but evolving hungry beasts that drip with their desire, love, and revolt.

The installation will be open to the public from Aug 17- Sept 3rd. On the closing day Sept 3rd from 5-7 pm there will be a garden party that celebrates queer pleasure and resistance. Please dress to impress in your finest sequins, hard florals, and highest drag. The space will be graced with the performances from John Michael Swartz, Carlo Maria and Connor Donahue, Miss West Vargina, Red, Mayfield Brooks (adddance.tumblr.com), B Dyson, Jennifer Vanilla (youtube.com/c/JenniferVanillaTV), and boiled wool (boiledwool.bandcamp.com). This magical moment will be sweetened by the confections of Vanessa Rae’s Glitter Sweet. Caitlin Rose Sweet’s ceramic vessels will be activated by a group of performers who will form living tableaus of queer intimacy by exchanging fluid between the vessels. This fluid exchange fountain will be performed by Lauren Lydiard, Noelle Fries (noellefries.com), Luz Cruz, Abigail Lloyd (www.hedronstudio.com ), Avigail Hurvitz-Prinz and others.

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Le Petit Versailles events are made possible by Allied Productions, Inc., Gardeners & Friends of LPV, GreenThumb/NYC Dept. of Parks, Materials for the Arts, the NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, and the Office of City Councilwoman Rosie Mendez. LPV Exhibitions are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.

CLOSING DAY GARDEN PARTY: SEPT 3, 5-7 PM
Uncontainable is an craft based installation that explores the long history of the vessel being a metaphor for a feminine body that is open, empty, and awaiting to be filled by the patriarchy. Caitlin Rose Sweet’s ceramic sculptures presents complicated forms that embody the potentiality of queerness and interrogates concepts of functionality, feminine labor, and interdependence. These queer ceramic vessels are not simple passive receivers to hold what is given to them but evolving hungry beasts that drip with their desire, love, and revolt.

The installation will be open to the public from Aug 17- Sept 3rd. On the closing day Sept 3rd from 5-7 pm there will be a garden party that celebrates queer pleasure and resistance. Please dress to impress in your finest sequins, hard florals, and highest drag. The space will be graced with the performances from John Michael Swartz, Carlo Maria and Connor Donahue, Miss West Vargina, Red, Mayfield Brooks (adddance.tumblr.com), B Dyson, Jennifer Vanilla (youtube.com/c/JenniferVanillaTV), and boiled wool (boiledwool.bandcamp.com). This magical moment will be sweetened by the confections of Vanessa Rae’s Glitter Sweet. Caitlin Rose Sweet’s ceramic vessels will be activated by a group of performers who will form living tableaus of queer intimacy by exchanging fluid between the vessels. This fluid exchange fountain will be performed by Lauren Lydiard, Noelle Fries (noellefries.com), Luz Cruz, Abigail Lloyd (www.hedronstudio.com ), Avigail Hurvitz-Prinz and others.

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Le Petit Versailles events are made possible by Allied Productions, Inc., Gardeners & Friends of LPV, GreenThumb/NYC Dept. of Parks, Materials for the Arts, the NYC Dept. of Cultural Affairs, and the Office of City Councilwoman Rosie Mendez. LPV Exhibitions are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.